Cooky cutter



Patented May ti,

UNITED STATES HENRI r-Taaonn Tasmanian, or stoor/rentree, PENNSYLVANIA.

COOKY CUTTER.

r Application med May ze,

To all whom t may concern: Y

Be it known that I, HENRT HAROLD Murnl-IEAD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Bloomsburg, in the county of Columbia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Cooky Cutter; and l dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, snch as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same. l

The invention relates to cocky cutters and has for its object to providea device of this character comprising an annular body member, in which aplunger' disc is disposedV and held by means of a coiled springsurrounding a shaft carried by the disc and guidable in a U-shapedbracket carried by the body member. Another object is to provide aU-shaped bracket with a sleeve surrounding the shaft, and the upper endof the shaft with a sleeve telescopically engaging the first mentionedsleeve and within which sleeve the coiled spring is housed and protectedfrom dirt and foreign matter.

A further object is to provide an ejecting disc of slightly lessdiameter than the chamber of the body member, thereby preventingscraping or sticking of the disc in relation to the wall of the bodymember, and to provide telscopically engaged sleeves for guiding theshaft during an ejecting operation and maintaining the disc in axialrelation to the chamber of the body member during an ejection operation.

With the above objects in view the invention resides in the combinationand arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth, sho-'wn in thedrawing, described and claimed, it being understood that changes in theprecise embodiment of the invention may be made within the scope of whatis claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

1n the drawing .v

Figure 1 is a vertical transverse sectional view through the cockycritter'.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the cutter.

Figure 3 is a large perspective view of the handle member of the device.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates the body member ofthe cutter, which body member is preferably annular shaped as shown, andis provided with a horizontally disposed flange 2, to the upper side ofwhich is secured by means of rivets of the chamber 5.

19211. Serial No. 715,890.

l, a tl-shaped handle Ll, under which the fingers of the operator may beplaced during a cocky ejecting operation after a cookyV has been cut bythe body member 1. Although the handle member has been described asconnected to the flange 2 by means of rivets 3, it is to be understoodthat it may be joined to the flange 2 by soldering or any other suitablemanner. Eisposed within the chamber 5 of the body member 1 is an,ejecting Vdisc (i, which disc is of less diameter thanA the diameter Vofthe chamber 5, and consequently during an ejecting operation, if thedisc 6 is maintained in axial relation with the body member 1, said discwill not engage the inner periphery of the body 1, consequently stickingor scraping of the disc is obviated. Disc 6 is provided with an upwardlyextending shaft 7, which extends through an enlarged aperture 8 in thehandle member 4t, and axiallyV through the sleeve 9 carried by thehandle member, and the sleeve 1() carried by the knob 11 on the upperend of the shaft, said sleeves telescopically engaging each other, andform means for axially guiding the shaft and disc during an ejectingoperation after cutting a cooky disc. During the operation of thedevice, the operator places two or more lingers under the bracket .4fand places a linger on the knob 11, forces the same downwardly to thedotted line position shown in Figure 1, against the action of the coiledspring 12, which is entirely housed within the sleeves 9 and 10 andinterposed between the handle member 4f and the knob. 1t will be seenthat when pressure is relieved from the knob 11, that expansive actionof the coiled spring 12 will return the disc 6 to inoperative positionas shown in Figure 1, however during the axial movement upwardly anddownwardly of the shaft 7, the telescopically engaged sleeves 9 and 10will axially guide the shaft and disc 6 for preventing engagement of theperiphery of the dise 6 with the wall It will also be seen that thespring 10 is entirely housed, consequently the collection of dirttherein, which willv render the device unsanitary is obviated. Thesleeve 9 is preferably secured to the handle member 4L by soldering thesame thereto as at 13, however it is to be understood that itmay besecured to the handle member in any suitable manner.

From the above it will be seen that a vcooky cutter is provided wherebycookies may be easily und quickly lornied 'troni :L piece o't dough undejected from the cutter by the disc 6 after euch cuttine' operationthereby obviuting the shaking` or the device as is now the custom withcooly cutters having no ejecting mechanism. It will also be seen thatthe springl 12 is entirely housed and the sleeves 9 und 10 not onlyhouse the spring, but also form guiding means for the shaft 7 and thedisc G.

The invention having been set forth what is claimed as new and useful isA cooky cutter comprising,` a clnimbered body member, zi disc disposedwithin the chamber of the body member and spaced from the wall thereof,n U-shziped lnmdle member carried the body member, a shaft carried bythe dise and extending through an enlarged aperture oi the handlemember, a knob threaded on the upper end of the shaft, u sleeve lurriedby said knob und disposed in :u1 annular channel of the knob, said lnobcarried sleeve teleseopicully engaging a sleeve rigidly carried by thecenter of the handle member and surrounding` the aperture therein, acoiled spring surrounding the shaft and disposed within the sleeves andentirely housed thereby, said sleeves forming sole means for axiallyguiding the shaft and dise during a eooky ejeetingg operaition andmaintaining the disc in spaced relation to the Wall ot' the chznnberedmember.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speeitication in thepresence et two subscribing witnesses.

HENRI HAROLD MUIRHEAD.

lVtnesses J. R. MUiRHEAD, I-I. B. MUIRHEAD.

